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  1. Utah State University Department of Environment and Society, Logan, UT, USA

    Stefani A. Crabtree

  2. The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

    Stefani A. Crabtree

  3. The Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris, France

    Stefani A. Crabtree

  4. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO, USA

    Stefani A. Crabtree

  5. Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Lewis Borck

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Crabtree, S.A., Borck, L. (2019). Social Networks for Archaeological Research. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2631-2

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